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The Roman Roadside Settlement and Multi-Period Ritual Complex at Nettleton and Rothwell, Lincolnshire (Paperback)
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The Roman Roadside Settlement and Multi-Period Ritual Complex at Nettleton and Rothwell, Lincolnshire (Paperback)
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The unremarkable arable landscape around Mount Pleasant today
belies the importance of the area in the past; at the highest point
of the Lincolnshire Wolds and at the head of three radial valleys,
this was a highly significant locality in earlier times. The
discovery of surface finds by archaeologists working ahead of a
prospective gas pipeline in 1992-3 augmented a collection of finds
metal-detected during the 1980s. The large number of Iron Age coins
and contemporary miniatures indicative of votive material suggested
the location of a shrine. At the instigation of the County
Archaeologist supported by Lincolnshire County Council, Steven
Willis began a programme of evaluation trenching at Mount Pleasant
in 1998 in a research exercise designed to better understand the
site and to assemble information to assist the longer term
management of the extensive, though fragile, remains there. The
work on site included student training in fieldwork methods,
assisted by the vital contribution of volunteers from the local
community. Ten trenches were excavated, each revealing remains
confirming the significance of the site to the early populations of
the Wolds. A number of Neolithic palisade features were recorded
representing land division and enclosure features, evidently part
of a ceremonial landscape associated with barrows. The discovery of
a stratified Early Bronze Age axe-head, Middle and Late Iron Age
finds, including pottery, brooches, quernstones and coins were a
testament to its continued occupation. Whilst the more striking
finds point to votive activity, evidence for economic and cultural
activity and prolific pottery finds from the Early Roman era,
suggest a settled community was established by this period. The
enclosure systems and tracks revealed by geophysical survey on
either side of the B1225, which runs through the site, suggested
that the modern road must overly a Roman predecessor. Stone founded
buildings and site morphology exposed by excavation confirmed this
and showed the site to have been a nodal point in the landscape, a
crossroads embedded in the topography. A continuing religious focus
at the site is demonstrated by the presence of an inscribed lead
tablet of the Late Roman period with a list of named Roman
citizens, presumably two households of this site or locality.
Studies of faunal and environmental samples provide an insight into
diet, crop production, local ecology and land use. Together with
the specialist analysis of the artefactual evidence, this volume
reveals a complex picture of the life and times of the site until
occupation came to a rather abrupt end in the first half of the
fourth century in an apparently widespread re-organization of
settlement in the region. There was no post-Roman occupation; until
the recent discoveries, all evidence of the rich archaeology of the
site was in danger of remaining in obscurity. Further investigative
work on the Wolds however is now recognized as a research priority.
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